Vanir Ausf B

I'm not sure what you mean. The vehicles in question are only listed in the Single Vehicle list within the Armored Infantry tab because their parent formations only exist in that category. That is how it works for all units.

To Verdenne and Victory is also suitable for H2H although the American side is a little easier IMO.

Just checked. They are both there.

1) There was APCR for the M36 (although the Americans called it HVAP). It arrived in Europe in January 1945 but I don't know when it's initial combat date is. I suspect BFC may be assuming the same timeline for 90mm HVAP as for the M26 Pershing, which also arrived in Europe (Antwerp) in January but did not see combat until late February. 2) The weird ammo listing in the manual was a bug inadvertently immortalized by BFC when they were grabbing screenshots for the manual. 3) Yes, you are crazy.

Robert Livingston has said he intends to issue a 3rd edition eventually, so hopefully we will all have the opportunity.

Nope. I pulled the 17 pdr and 75mm numbers from WW2 Ballistics, which also provides a method to calculate the numbers for any projectile but it's a cumbersome, multi-step process.

BTW, the in-game accuracy is lower than the British estimates. I have tested Sherman 75mm accuracy against Panther tanks moving at Fast speed laterally at 500 meters and the first shot hit % was under 50 (granted, Fast is faster than 15 mph so maybe they are in line with the British numbers when speed is factored in, but I am not sure to what extent if any CM takes that into consideration).

I don't recall 17 pdr APCBC being inaccurate. You may be thinking of 17 pdr APDS ammunition which preformed badly in several tests because of quality control issues. By way of comparison, the numbers for the Sherman 75mm cannon are 50% and 24% at 800 yards, 18% and 7% at 1200 yards.

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The odds of hitting a target moving towards the shooter are only slightly lower than a stationary target. A target moving laterally in relation to the shooter is a difficult shot but not nearly as impossible for WW2-era weaponry as some people think. A British wartime study calculated the first shot hit probability for the 17 pdr against a tank-sized target moving at 15 mph as 73% for head-on and 46% at 800 yards, 34% and 17% respectively at 1200 yards.

The latter, unfortunately. BFC looked into toggle-able grids a few years back but ran into technical problems.

Grids are handy things. Thanks!

Units have always spotted while hiding. What changed is that hiding units with a covered arc will unhide when an enemy unit enters the arc.

Right you are. The six wheels should have tipped me off.

You may see more bogging in snow in the demo than you will in the full game.

It was the transmission, not the engine, and it was actually invented by the British so most of their tanks could do it as well (Churchill, Cromwell, Comet). Useful in tight spaces, although simply locking one track and pivoting was just as effective most the time (the Sherman can't do either of those things so had to turn like a car).

Looks like the bog standard 2A65 Msta-B 152mm howitzer. So, definitely in Black Sea.

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I can't speak for BFC and my NDA limits what I can say except that this and related AI ammo usage issues are not news to us.

Although it is certainly possible that further adjustments are in order, tree toughness actually has been adjusted since CMSF. From the CMBN v1.01 readme patch notes: * Direct hits do more damage to trees. * Trees are less likely to block large projectiles consistently.

This is a "known issue".

Yeah, saying that Trophy was a "great killer" of accompanying infantry is a stretch. AFAIK, there has been only one ISF death attributed to Trophy. This comes up periodically. Most sources I can Google up do refer to Shtora as a soft-kill APS. If this is incorrect we need to find out what the correct term is or invent one.

Minor update. Without any numbers or dates this doesn't tell us much except that units may begin receiving completed machines soon. Surprise: Russia's Lethal T-14 Armata Tank Is in Production

My recollection is that all of their sabot rounds are Soviet leftovers.

ERA effectiveness is not range dependent. Ukrainian tanks use ammunition that was state of the art 30 years ago while Russian tanks use a modern sabot round.